San Diego County Civil War Veterans
(Civil War Veterans who resided in San Diego)
LEROY W. ALLUM
Submitted by Michael Harris
Member Heintzelman Post #33 G.A.R.
MUSTER INTO G.A.R.: February 14, 1889
TRANSFER OUT: April 25, 1895
BORN: Pennsylvania
AGE: 44 (on February 14, 1889)
OCCUPATION: Publisher
START MILITARY SERVICE: August 2, 1862
ENTRY RANK, UNIT: Private, Co. C 22 Iowa Inf.
END MILITARY SERVICE DATE: October 5, 1865
DISCHARGE RANK, UNIT: Color Sergt. 22 Iowa Inf.
DIED: Unknown
BURIAL: Unknown
LEROY W. ALLUM, San Diego�s first assistant Postmaster, is a veteran. He and
his father, Mr. Thomas Allum, both enlisted at the beginning of the war. His
father enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Iowa Infantry, but was discharged at
Vicksburg on account of sickness. He recovered and recruited a company of
100-day men, Company D Forty-eighth Iowa, August, 1864. He was promoted to
First Lieutenant, and served until the close of the war. He married Miss
Matilda A. Allum, a distant relative, of Scotch-English descent, and had a
family of ten children, of which the subject of this sketch was the third. The
family came to Iowa in 1853, and settled in Davenport. In 1856 Leroy went to
Hazel Dell Academy, which he left October 2, 1862, at the age of eighteen, to
enlist in Company C, Twenty-second Iowa, the same company in which his father
first enlisted. He went all through the war, and came back without a wound,
although in many places of great danger. He was in the following battles: Port
Gibson, Champion Hill, Black River, and at the siege of Vicksburg. It was his
regiment, under Colonel William M. Stone (afterward Governor of Iowa), that
planted the flag upon the works, when twenty-eight men were killed in a few
minutes, and some captured. They were obliged to withdraw, but they brought the
colors back with them Vicksburg was taken the 4th of July following. After
this the regiment was in the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, and was in New
Orleans and Texas, and on the Red River campaign. They were also in the
Shenandoah valley, Fish Hill, Cedar Creek and Winchester. In 1866, he, with his
bunk and messmate, Thomas M. Rogers, started the Republican, a newspaper, at
Newton, Iowa, which he continued until 1878, when he moved to Oakland,
California where he published the Vidette, a Republican paper (daily and
weekly), and continued there nine years.
He was married to Miss Alice G. Israel, daughter of Mr. Mc. C. Israel, a
merchant of Monroe, Iowa, and has three children, all boys; Leroy M. born
November 6, 1875; Ralph L., born September 11, 1878, and Fred M., born August
11, 1883. He is a Knight Templar in the York rite, and thirty-second degree
in the Scottish rite Masonry, and is a member of the G. A. R. He belongs to
Heintzelman Post, No, 33, of San Diego.
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San
Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... -
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 348 Transcribed by
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